The Cupboard of Rassilon

As a Dalek would say “DECORATE” and i did

I have my little ” cupboard  looking nice all shiny white walls and my cabinets are in

the special thing here was to make it fit round everything so it flowed and worked as a whole, so i designed its lay out to have purpose and create more floor space
things set right up to the wall it works.
now not much but this humble collection is mine and now i got it looking to sweet

and i know you greedy lot wana see others so here we go

this is my who shelves and a paint to get right ,but are now spot on and made from scrap and skip finds and a bit of paint et voila shelves

now my big models and RC stuff on top as you can clearly see no room for a upcoming 3rd scale classic K9 RC but i wont say no to one as a pressie 🙂 under that is MY shelf, yes this room is the ultimate selfish trip my room my way, so L-R, Revenge of the Cybermen ,Remembrance of the Daleks ,Pyramids of Mars and Death to the Daleks ,all my fave stories immortalized in plastic form under that some of my TARDISes L-R Masters Tardis 70’s computer bank ,Smith Capaldi custom , Tennant Eccleston, 80s circa S19 and McCoy McGann box with the Masters TARDIS Grandfather clock custom and an unseen but there hat stand  add some awesome pictures a graphic or two the console diagram from the tech manual is behind the tardises and done

now thinking aghhhhh no blurred ,im being creative you get the idea im sure, this is my small lot (main focus is classic not new)

I think of this shelf as being the two Timelords discuss the doctor and the rest is a visual aide of what they’re talking about around them
yes that is original miss piggy rose figure and ecclestone these are the first figures ever made from them came this lot including and nice to have out my custom stuff like iron legionaries, delgado in suit Key to Time Tom etc

and on top shelf nearly all 13 Doctors (always one missing caught in a sodin vortex ,again, and not there) but as i grew up with 12 regenerations, 13 lives, and with CO decideing to shrink the range (due to lack of funds and resources ) to 3 inch tall things im out of that one  then this is for me a closing and end of the line i am missing a couple of big characters, Brigadier and Ainley Master, but i can pick them up at my leisure and whenever CO decided to get thumb out of their ass and just accept Ainley was the master for over a decade
and also last year i got Ace ,and at hi school i watched McCoy stories everyone pretty much and like him and his Dr and love Ace so this does feel like an end like ive done it ,
CO will only focus on the 70s and nothing but ,we got a couple of things from 80s ,if they do more ill pick some up that i like at my leisure but yeah im happy job done cabinet full

you can see the build a figure figures as well there and my collection of Dapol and tat from over the years ,a fave being a bubble bath for the 25th anniversary warm nostalgia there

Then there is this ,this i had on my door (guess how it got wrecked) in 88 and i made it on my to do list this year to get and aint she gorgeous the poster was fresh in mag like the day it was released

This truly is my room and what a blast of nostalgia and how nice to have these things in it ,my who stuff  and my comic stuff ,how good it is for me to have back stuff i did have
so really is reaching completion few bits left to do

so aside from that what else is new

 

Making DVD covers or re making them as the standard ones don’t float my boat and some stories i really like and would like proper covers for

Taking a die-cast Dalek and giving it a  repaint , one is pristine like the Dalek story after it just soaked up 1.21 gigawats of electricity
and the other now looks more dirty and battered and how we  see them now,
not easy ,plastic fine metal and weathering hard work, lots of trial and error but done

Now onto props and looking forward to sometime this year getting a Cyber head made then who knows

Big Chief Doctor Who

1/6 is here and it is a BIG market this may be a doll but is not for the kids

SIDESHOW MEDICOM heck even NECCA are doing 1/4 scale hi end pieces now,  Big Chief  wants to play with the big boys

bring it on im looking forward to it i want the 1/6 C Reeve Superman  as well

so for years we here of talk of Doctor Who getting 1/6 dolls we had a good cheap line by CO that was brilliant for its price point but then Big Chief said yeah were going to do high end 1/6 collectable who line along came Matt  very good

and a host of goodies to boot like his sonic extra hands etc jacket is a little iffy but we will come to clothes shortly but that’s nothing like matt’s jacket in color (Orange?), design and texture,  CO who do the smaller toys did a figure with the same jacket pattern in same colors

David Tennants doll was even better

that my friend is awesome the suit clothing may be off there a tad chunky and lot thicker but look good quality we got a coat and whole host of extras but what about classics ?

now if you build up enough bodies to use and re use well that means only new heads and clothes have to be made By using standard parts, they could have pushed out another 3 figures, by my estimation, quadrupling their financial income, thus funding future developments in further dolls like other companies do a small medium large body and thats it  but there not seeming to do this for some reason its all a bit slow

But at last we get Tom “THE DOCTOR” Baker ,well im in for that xmas list save whatever

The Doctor’s new costume, designed by James Acheson (yes the one now winning awards in Hollywood but ill leave judgement on his spiderman costume ) was inspired by a French poster advertising Aristide Bruant at the Ambassadeurs nightclub in Paris, 1892.

and scarf accident by bergodia pope resulted in every ball of wall used and a scarf of some length

original sketch

season 13

right off the bat er what gives with the boggle eye look ?,why isn’t he just neutral ? but ok so far so good (coats a bit chunky but ok) i can work with that then we get more pictures

facial details, skins tones, and texture im looking for as well as a decent expression , an example is this

Yes thats a doll not the actress i find that simply scary awe inspiring ,and some kind of voodoo magic

more here Black Widow

Then not so long ago i managed to see this Tom in hand at my local FP , and ill just say AGHH,ooook

I really want a tom doll in 1/6 and around £200 is a going rate for these things, but hears the rub

I was lucky enough to know several people in the store and this was a loose figure on a new series stand on there shelf,apparently the new series base for a classic Dr had the new circles these  circles spelt 4 , nope this don’t work its to new style design old style clash , its like lime green and lemon yellow together it jars it needs a natural black one and a stand like his environment. eg Superman has a chunk of the fortress Batman has chunk of the cave etc , BUT we get a nice picture of the console room no idea the season 18 at a guess so put that behind him i looked for many angles to shiny so reflects light and is a picture and as my good friend said “cheapens the figure” its just a bit of shiny cardboard so stand is right out ,not a problem ,i can work with that as well

Tom was famous for carrying over mixing up elements of his costume over his tenure right up to S18 with his brown adventure boots

The boggle eyes as i feared is a problem,the zombie look ,or i have to agree with my friend in recreating the famous brooding head down Pyramids Of Mars look he looks like he is crying like he’s going to burst into tears. The expression is all wrong, going for a expression was a big mistake why when every one else they did is neutral ? so i tried and you have to capture a moment him doing something and Tom used this as measure of a surprise part of his acting to a line so you got to play about to try to make it work he cant just stand on the shelf sadly,or maybe it’s sold as Tom Baker at the pub after filming Coming out the Coach & Horses with Francis Bacon in soho around 2am.

And the coat is to light darker thankfully than bright red prototype but to light to thick and clunky but can be made to work but its all off including the lack of details

The actual coat sold at auction for Bonhams

A Victorian style double-breasted frock coat,
of burgundy colored cut velvet, with matching buttons, having darned patches applied, giving the impression of age, lined with brown colored silk effect fabric, with large interior pockets, labelled inside “Morris Angel & Son Ltd, 117-119 Shaftesbury Ave, WC2” inscribed in an unknown hand in black marker pen “TOM BAKER, 41”

Costume Designer, June Hudson

this coat there using for this doll is this, and was used a lot by tom season 13 first and again  for deadly assassin ,lots of stories different scarfs different looks

as you can see to light button holes missing from lapel all easy to see and research so why is it missed ? ,trousers very Denis Fisher doll like and like the whole figure needs dressing and putting right this can be fixed but what can not be fixed is …………………

The Scarf a printed piece of cotton like a t shirt with a design on it its cheap nasty and don’t work a chap called Malcolm once found ribbed fabric that works and another person has used this to make new scarfs the scarf IS the costume for Tom

Now that’s more like it now this person chose to change the waistcoat i wouldn’t the pattern is to big its 1/1 for use so needs scaling down but the scarf is right again waistcoat is just a printed picture on plain cotton a thicker (dare i say it) piece of material that was wool like would of been better to print on

The beard of five o clock shadow docent suit this is varying degrees on each doll of one day to whole week of not shaving  and the hair is supposed to be brown not black with brown highlights the skin is little to white and no texture this with odd expression lets the head sculpt down

as they’re still fledgling  small company with a lot yet to learn I’m still cutting them some slack, but I do find it annoying that these figures still seem to be loosing ‘something’ when they go through the manufacturing process, and in the case of Tom an awful lot seems to be lost.

which for me is a shame best picture i have seen of tom has taken some modifications to it

Bottom line nice idea nice attempt ,i wouldn’t buy it personally £200 it has to be spot on perfect but as a present it would be awesome and id set out buying new items of clothing strait away and repainting the whole head as this pic shows ,it has tons of potential

these owners are a clever lot this is off sideshow forum